Commenting on today’s labour market data, ONS director of economic statistics Darren Morgan said:
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Continuing, Darren Morgan said:
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Darren Morgan added:
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Darren Morgan concluded:
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The number of employees on payroll continued to grow strongly in December 2021, and is now over 400,000 above the pre-pandemic level ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…
Weekly hours worked fell 2.6 million on the previous quarter, to 1.02 billion hours in September to November 2021, the first drop since the latest relaxation of #COVID19 regulations ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…
After taking inflation into account, average pay saw annual growth of 0.4% including bonuses in September to November 2021, while excluding bonuses it was flat ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…
There were an average of 1.247 million job vacancies across October to December 2021, up from 1.119 million the previous three months ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…
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We've led the development of a new method for estimating the number of excess deaths across UK countries.
Julie Stanborough talks us through the data released today and how this new method will give us a better understanding in this complex area ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Expected number of deaths used to calculate excess mortality is now estimated from age-specific mortality rates rather than death counts, so changes in population size and age structure are taken into account. Our new method also accounts for trends in population mortality rates.
In 2023, the new method estimates 10,994 excess deaths in the UK, which is 20,448 fewer than the current method.
We've published a new article exploring the disability, health status, ethnic group, religion and employment of people of different sexual orientations (aged 16 years and over) in England and Wales using #Census2021 data.
#Census2021 included a voluntary question about sexual orientation of usual residents aged 16 and over:
▪️ 89.4% said they were straight or heterosexual
▪️ 3.2% identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation (LGB+)
▪️ 7.5% did not respond to the question
People who identified as LGB+ were younger on average, with a far higher proportion aged between 16 and 34 years (57.9%) than in the overall population of England and Wales (29.6%).
However, different LGB+ sexual orientation groups had markedly different age distributions.